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My 2020 desk setup

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Post by psanford »

safog wrote: post #65
amarshall wrote: post #50

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I’ve used a Kinesis Advantage at work for 7 years now. Started after I began to get wrist discomfort once I started programming full-time. It’s been wonderful, and removal of the discomfort and pain is worth the $300 several times over. I bought one for home shortly after. It does take a bit to get used to typing on. It took a few days to get from 6 wpm to ~35 wpm, and about two weeks total to get to ~80 wpm. I can u…

I wish there was a way to try this keyboard without committing to buying it for a month or so. It seems like there will be a learning curve and you might not even like it at the end of it.

There is a way! Kinesis has a 60 day return policy if you buy directly from them.

[0]: https://kinesis-ergo.com/support/returns/

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Post by wiredfool »

I’m a couple of weeks into using a single giant (32”) monitor at macOS’s 3k resolution, and I’m finding it works pretty well with a 3x2 set of windows for code, terminal and docs. The center third is usually a single emacs window with two frames, web browser on the left, and inspect window or terminals on the right.

I’m also really liking the usb-c power delivery, so it’s one cable to the work laptop, and from there, it’s got a usb hub for the kB/mouse.

The killer feature is the built in KVM switch, so by switching the input to hdmi, I can switch the keyboard/moose to my mini and use it when I’m not at $day_job.

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

His monitor resolution is unnecessary AFAICS.

I have one, also 31.5" which is 3840 x 2160, without any scaling, and the text is sharp as fuck. Given my experience the only thing I'd do if I bought another monitor given what I know now is to buy one same res but larger because 3840 x 2160 is a lot of pixels in a small space. A single black pixel on a white background from 60cm away is very, very close to invisible (just tried it).

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Post by mtzet »

zeven7 wrote: post #71
StavrosK wrote: post #33

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I have three monitors, but I only use one (a 24" one, the second is for when I want to watch some show or movie while doing stuff on the main one, and the third I basically never use). I have my apps always maximized/fullscreen in the main monitor and I alt-tab between them. I never could get into having multiple apps on-screen at the same time, since I can only focus on one. Writing this comment, though, I realize t…

A better alt+tab switcher would be great! Why isn't that a thing? I'm imagining something where you could use alt+f1, alt+f2, alt+f3, etc. to switch to specific windows rather than just rotating between everything.

If you can live with switching between different applications rather than windows, this is the default behavior on Windows 10 and Gnome 3 using win+1, win+2, ….

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Post by ariofrio »

I read this as “Steven Spielberg uses this: my 2020 desk setup” before I clicked through. I was so amazed that Spielberg used a tiling window manager before I went back and figured out my mistake!

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Post by dawnerd »

StavrosK wrote: post #33
lmilcin wrote: post #12

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Except you have huge monitor and you lay stuff in multiple side by side windows which makes the whole argument very moot. And when you use laptop you are kind of forced to use single screen because multiple screens is inconvenient at best. When I started development 15" monitors were standard and 17" were a luxury. Setting multiple monitors was a must or you would have to constantly switch between editor, terminal an…

I have three monitors, but I only use one (a 24" one, the second is for when I want to watch some show or movie while doing stuff on the main one, and the third I basically never use). I have my apps always maximized/fullscreen in the main monitor and I alt-tab between them. I never could get into having multiple apps on-screen at the same time, since I can only focus on one. Writing this comment, though, I realize t…

Same here. I full window everything. And use my second monitor basically only for YouTube/Spotify. It’s really useful when I need to keep some reference up too.

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Post by antigirl »

mech422 wrote: post #39
zerr wrote: post #36

Why Kinesis doesn't produce higher quality build variant of its keyboard? One that doesn't feel like a flimsy/cheap plastic. It seems they are charging premium just for the layout and PCB.

I got one of their 'freestyle' keyboards years ago.. complete crap - I swear its rubber dome switches :-P I got an ErgoDox EZ last year, put some nice heavy kaihl box switches in it...now I just gotta find time to learn it (and dvorak/colemak). Currently using a Vortex Cypher with the split spacebar, I tore down and rebuild - new switches, added leds (south facing mounts so they're useless but I figured I'd try). and…

I got ergodox few months ago. Still getting used to it. I feel like this other ken keyboard promotes typing with your hands rested. ASFAIK this can be a culprit for RSI
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